Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

You never heard anybody ask 'Elvis who?'

New York is the true City of Light in any season.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.